Lincolnshire

Clinical Lead and APP

Sarah qualified as a physiotherapist in 2001. She specialised in pain management early in her career and completed her MSc Pain Management at Cardiff University in 2008. Sarah worked in a national pain service for 13 years in clinical and leadership roles and has trained extensively in ways of supporting patients to reduce the impact of pain on their ability to live their life.

Sarah’s research interests include psychologically informed approaches to patient care and the relationship between the patient and their treating clinician. This reflects her passion for understanding what matters to people and helping them to make changes to increase their vitality in living. Sarah is a Lecturer with Brunel University London where she teaches pain management at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. She has also served on national committees developing understanding of the management of persistent pain.

Specialist Pain Physiotherapist Team Lead

I trained as a physiotherapist in Adelaide, Australia after deciding I wanted a change from sitting at a desk all day working in IT. I had the great pleasure of learning pain science from David Butler and Lorimer Moseley as an undergraduate student – their sessions were always entertaining and thought provoking.

After working with children with disabilities for a year, I joined a musculoskeletal physiotherapy practice where the owner was a chronic pain specialist, and I realised I enjoyed the challenge of working with people who have persistent pain.

My second love in physiotherapy is women’s health and I have run ante/post-natal exercise classes, taught practical skills for labour, treated pregnancy and postnatal symptoms, and assessed and managed pelvic floor/continence issues.

Combining women’s health with persistent pain has led to me having a special interest in chronic pelvic pain syndromes, including conditions such as endometriosis, interstitial cystitis, overactive pelvic floor muscles and vulvodynia.

I moved back to England in 2018 for family reasons. While many think I must be mad, I love getting outdoors into the beautiful English countryside with my family and our dog (whatever the weather), and I’m very happy to not be checking for spiders and snakes in my garden anymore!

Advanced Practice Physiotherapist

Donna has a varied physiotherapy background, having worked in the NHS, in private clinics and at a private hospital. As well as also working in professional sport, specifically football at club and international level and at all levels of rugby league, ballet, for military RAF and the army. She has 2 master’s degrees with distinction in Sports Medicine and Sports Biomechanics, in addition to a post graduate diploma in Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy with merit. She has also just been awarded a postgraduate certificate in the Clinical Management of Pain with distinction. Donna is a member of the MACP, which is the Musculoskeletal Association of Chartered Physiotherapists and her areas of interest are in persistent pain and complex musculoskeletal problems. In her spare time, Donna enjoys spending time at the gym; particularly spinning, bootcamps, circuits and has just taken up weightlifting.

Advanced Practitioner Physiotherapist

Following graduation from the University of East Anglia as a Physiotherapist in 2007, Emily worked for 5 years as an MSK Physiotherapist which she thoroughly enjoyed. She found working with complex patients whose conditions impacted on both their emotions and social function was the most rewarding to work with, so she decided to specialise in the field of Pain Management. Emily’s particular interests include pain neuroscience and psychological therapies. Initially she worked within a multi-disciplinary hospital pain service before moving into community pain management, where she has worked in leadership positions including clinical operations and quality and governance. She is thrilled to be leading the holistic Community Lincolnshire Pain service for Connect Health, which is improving access to and the quality of pain management treatments available to the people of Lincolnshire particularly the isolated population in rural communities.